Anyway. Finished at work, imma go home, make delicious food and play video games with my son.

Whatever the answer, Starmer comes out looking like either a complete liar or the most supine puppet who ever set foot in No.10.

Last musing on this because life is too short. My takeaway is that Starmer's defence is "The FCO deliberately rubber-stamped Mandy, against advice", which begs the question why the FCO did this. The answer to *that* arguably goes deeper into British politics than we're currently experiencing.

Yeah well, we can’t have an inquiry into that because it’ll swiftly become apparent it was just Peter hooking Morgan up with undeclared millionaire bungs and Steve Reed drafting smeary dossiers on colleagues and passing them to Peter’s friends at the Times. And that’s just for starters, in 2018.

Yeah, I feel like this is all a lot of fluff in light of *literally everyone knowing that Mandelson is a crook* for years and years already. The only way it could be a defence is if your argument is that you are galactically ignorant, which is... well, it's something if you also happen to be the PM.

I'm not fully following this tbh, but has he pivoted from "nobody told me" to "Well, actually I *did* ask but the FCO lied to me"? Cos that's a very different position to take, and one that's even worse if it turns out he's chatting shit (which he clearly is).

Starmer continually returning to "But nobody told me..." looks increasingly pathetic every time he falls back on it.

I’m not some very forensic politics clever clogs smart boy but I think would have just simply avoided this mess by NOT appointing the serially disgraced best friend of an internationally notorious pedophile

Not to mention the man he was appointing was Peter fucking Mandelson, whose name has been a by-word for dodgy dealings for decades.

This is the crux of the matter for me, everyone knew, and also the defense of 'he wasn't told' requires you to forget how linear time works, and the fact that Starmer had already announced the appointment and put Mr Noncington-Friend to work before they had time to do a check.

Ah no, he's going to retreat to the last bastion of any squirming political worm.

Blame the civil service.

Foreign Office previously had powers to ignore security vetting? Is Starmer going to shift blame towards Lammy?

This is astonishing.

I'm old enough to remember when kier's main selling point was meant to be "no you don't get it, he's a liar" rather than "no you don't get it, he's incompetent"

It’s not an advert. It’s a threat.

Dominic Waghorn @DominicWaghorn X.com Hard to think of a more damning indictment of what Israel is doing in the West Bank right now. From the man who used to run its occupation: "expedited annexation accompanied by ethnic cleansing" @ Sarit Michaeli @saritmo •21h A former head of COGAT and commander of the Judea and Samaria Division calls the situation in the West Bank "expedited annexation accompanied by ethnic cleansing", led by the messianic govt. ministers and backed by PM Ne...

It’s important to understand that the plan was always to bullshit and continue strangling the Palestinians until The Day Of Reckoning came, when the IDF could finally just destroy the Palestinians. And that politicians across the white people world fully understood that this was the plan.

I love the caveat of "We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs", you can almost hear the heavy sigh and the emphasis on *know* that accompanies it.

A headline like this is incitement to racial hatred.

Somewhere in my house a cup of tea is rapidly diminishing in temperature 😔

Ironically ofc, he'd probably be one of the first people to complain *about* "cancelling" despite having survived what would've been a well deserved one.

We had a guy at my work call Rishi Sunak a particularly choice racial slur whilst complaining we couldn't have "one of our own" as Prime Minister and he barely got a slap on the wrist. He certainly wasn't cancelled by the woke mob.

Another day of the BBC leading with an anti-migrant news story. Fuck the BBC down to its rotten fucking core.

For those counting this would be relaunch number 16.

Nope, sorry. Real History™ was agreed by the Council of Noncea in the Victorian era and is regularly updated by a panel of red-faced retired army colonels and Oxbridge phrenology enthusiasts, that's just how it goes.

Just drive-by "NEERRRRRRRD"-ed my own son while he was walking down the street with his mates.

Parenting done right.

dad: so whats the deal with the war

me: *speaks for 5 min*

dad: wow that is an impressive analysis

me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert

dad: oh whats their name

me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

🫪

It's also Rex Manning Day.

Can I cheer everyone up a bit by pointing out that it's the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher?

Happy dead witch day, girls and gays🥳

*Small Soldiers